Have my own sewing machine (an old Singer hand operated one that is capable of some heavy duty work that the electric ones groan over) and repair and make all sorts of stuff.

There were two things that my mom made sure her boys could do and that was sew and cook. Funnily enough those are two of the things that I most enjoy being able to do well. 🙂

Loads of amazing stuff, but the Triumph one was that I looked at the most. That project is going to take a few years before they get the most out of it, but her images captured so much of what goes in to it. The story telling is what impresses me most, not just the quality of the image.

Lots of good images there, but the one that suck out the most was the gratuities builders bum one. No idea why though……..

The main point being made by people about this statement is that the cycle infrastructure in this country is very poor. In a lot of places the cycle lanes have no priority at junctions, are poorly maintained and are not well connected with a lot of infrastructure. Given the choice, cyclists would often rather use the road, which gives them a right of way at junctions, clear road use rules (generally we all know how to use them) and we can make steady progress.

If you are not considered to be a road user then you have given some people the excuse that we should not have been there in the first place. That is a very vulnerable place to be and not something that the senior politician in charge of policy and transport infrastructure really should understand before making such inflammatory statements. Chris Boardman’s offer to take home for a bike ride would be an education, but highly unlikely that it will be taken up.

Excellent. I can now point my kids at that and see if they can do the same 🙂

My favourite at the moment. I bought this 20 years ago from Cadenhead for £30. I do wish i had got more looking at the price it now fetches (we are talking £’000s 😯 ). I don’t drink much at all and this now comes out on very special occasions.

what about those of us who have some half decent knives that were a bit of a bargain at TKMaxx?

Then

With the greatest respect, I really can’t be arsed with all that.

If you can’t be arsed to spend a couple of minutes to learn how use a £2 tool properly then crack on, but the wipe through tools that I have seen people use shagged some good knives; not because they were crap tools, but because the person doing the sharpening did it not know what they were doing. They tend to be very coarse and take off a lot of metal. They can also cause a serration on the blade (think braking bumps on a downhill section) which gets exaggerated over time.

I teach kids of 7 upwards basic knife skills and the most basic one is to look after your knife properly. The knowledge costs nothing and you can always ignore it if you find out something better, but to not even try…..

Best of luck, but you did ask for advice and you have had some good feedback, just never use the “with greatest respect” BS when actually mean the opposite. Some of us know what you really mean 😉

I does not matter what stone you use, within reason, but just go on you tube and learn how to sharpen them properly. The cheap diamond impregnate steels people have mentioned earlier are great and last ages.

There is a lot of tosh on YouTube , but you can get the idea pretty quickly. 🙂

Still got all of my limbs so no carving axe. 🙂

She is curled up with a book, but I reckon it is a double bluff,

Splash!

And me.

My darling wife was pretty good being as we were rebuilding a house whilst she was pregnant. Did loads of work on it on maternity leave including up the scaffold which I got told off for letting her do! You fry and stop a majorly hormonal woman doing anything at that point.

The best bit of baby brain was when she managed to drive in to a parked car, in a space with nothing else around it. Just drove straight at it and hit it! Other than that it was the complete inability to say the colour of anything correctly (blue things were green for some reason and no pattern to anything else).

Ten years on back to as near normal as she was before all the sleep deprivation and complete lack of time to do anything kicked off.

Best of luck.

Go on to eBay and look for used chisels. I mainly carve and i had lost one of my favourite chisels. I ended up buying an old boys much loved set of 20 for the price of 2 new Marples chisels. If you know what you are looking for then you are away and then spend some money on the guides and sharpening kit.

No use to you, but I have a pocket set of DMT diamond sharpeners (200 and 600 grit) and use them far more often than I ever thought possible. Mind you I hate blunt things that should be sharp, but less of my OCD, sorry.

The one from the chalk is a flint nodule. It is not man made as you at looking at the chalk flint interface on the outside with no tool marks on them. Any artefact that has been made will have some sort of indication of manufacture. It may be hollow and have some quartz crystals in. I have one vey similar and it is almost perfectly spherical. It rattled a bit so I used a diamond cutter to slice it in half but no crystals this time.

The other one looks to have tool marks on it and may have been shaped. It could have been used for sharpening or grinding, possibly the latter but that is a guess. The rock looks to be fine grained and possibly igneous, with the choncoidal fracture on the top edge in the first picture.

Both interesting rocks though, but I am a geologist so no surprise there really 😉

Unless all of the ground slpoes to the pond then you are only collecting the water that falls directly on to the surface of the water. Once the pond are full the the pond will not get more that a couple of mm higher as the area the water can collect in massively increases. Assuming that the rain is so heavy that you are not getting any infiltration then the rest of the garden will start to fill as well. All you need to do is look at where the water flows to naturally and ensure that this is the best way for it to go so as not to flood you.

You need to think what has happened previously. We have not had that much rain compared to previous events (not even close) so I would suggest that you actually watch what happens when it fills up in a storm and see where the water goes. I would have to assume that the previous owners just let it do its own thing and did not get flooded every time it filled. Gravity is your friend here so as long as you don’t block off any drainage routes then you should be ok.

Bump as it has just started.

Candy floss for the brain. It does not take itself too seriously and nobody has to watch it. It is really more like children’s tv with a bigger budget. In fact that is not being fair to kids to as there are some really good things on there.

It is popular, profitable and could not give a fig about much else. The same presenters and production crew mean it will be the same and it being on a streaming service means you really have to go looking for it to watch it.

All that being said my kids loved it and I thought that it was ok so we will watch next week.

edlong thanks for the response. It should actually be a standard text for anybody responding to this thread before they say anything. Not that it would stop them, mind. This is STW after all and we could argue with ourselves if nobody else was around 🙂

The only thing that I have found that has a similar textures and a bit of the taste of bacon is shiitake mushroom stalks, flattened, beaten, salted and then fried in olive oil. They have a similar texture to meat and a nice strong taste. It is not bacon, but close enough that the kids like it and thought it was meat first time they tried it.

Baum, baum. Chic. Chicachicaaaaaa…….

Infected my kids with this as well. Happy days.

🙂

Part of the reason that Trump has succeeded is that he can afford it. Many more worthy and outstanding candidates are out there, but they do not have the money, or can garner enough support.

Any system that relies on candidates being able to raise $1 billion dollars to get in to office automatically reduces the gene pool of acceptable candidates. They were give the choice between very solid establishment and a bit of an outsider and they chose to believe the lies of the outsider. For us it looks mad, but a bit like any marriage the situation often appears different from within than without. All of the little things that influence people are more important than any big nefarious policies (bring back coal mining equals more jobs and climate change is not real sort of argument)

We are no different. A lot of people chose to believe lies and ignore facts to vote against a system that they think is skewed. To misquote Douglas Adams: you vote for the lizard, because if you don’t then the wrong lizard might get in.

That was awesome. I knew that it was coming, but I still laughed out loud.

Sorry, but I had to do this 🙂

The only way this works is that you have to have an insulting layer between you and the sock. I have quite a bit of experience working in dry suits and they do not keep you dry, because you sweat, but they do keep you warm.
You need to have a wicking/insulating layer between you and the cold water that you are immersed/inc contact with to stop the thermal loss. A liquid-latex-liquid connection will still loose heat pretty quickly, but it is probably safe to assume that you are not in water the whole time. As long as you keep some heat in the sock and don’t loose it all then they may work for you.

I have to say that a good winter boot and wool socks works for me, but I have riding mates who lose all feeling in their feet in October and don’t get it back until April no matter how much they spend. If you go one step further you find people with Reynard’s syndrome and they blood supply cuts of to the extremities. If I had that I would be going with heated gloves and socks!

I kind of get the point, but if it was simply the rag doll (which I have now found is the title) then there are mixed messages when the girl produces some of the amazingly strong moves and then becomes entirely relaxed again. Trying desperately not to use the words flaccid and floppy in this context as I am pretty sure that is not what is going on, but you never know 😉

In any case as a piece of art it has got a lot of people talking about it so fair play to them. Modern dance is so physically demanding and often seen by so few people that this bit of publicity can only be a good thing.

Interesting. It is definitely dance and the strength and control needed are amazing, but it is the subtext that is most disturbing. The woman is almost entirely passive and at no point in the story that they are telling does she progress beyond that passivity. That is why I find it a bit controlling. With those skills they could have made much more of a story. They ended up with a series of clever pseudo gymnastic moves with a very floppy woman.

Shame really as they are both very talented dancers to put a series of moves like that together.

(Pseuds corner here we come…..)

The fanny one is somewhat curious, although I always raise an eyebrow when our atlantic cousins talk about their fanny packs. I did not know you could bulk buy….

That also reminds me of a very confused american student who was mortified when we started talking about using Winnie the Pooh rubbers in school.

Six year old image of something I did not buy!

Just leave it. I had one in are red house that sounded like they were eating the joists. What thematically doing was bringing the cellulose back to the nest and building. Saying that this one was huge (covered and area of 3m2) but nobody in the house got stung, I did not need to go in the loft, and when they had left it wasa great thing to go and look at, but I did take it out as it took up so much space.

It is still not as good as they guy in the New Forest who essentially let a hornet nest live in his spare room. The windows were all open and they just came in and built their nest. He just closed the door, taped up the gap and left them to it. They are fascinating creatures and try and find their nests to watch them (probably means I m strange as well).

Do you thing somebody needs £1200 today, now, or even sooner?
🙂

I do Pilates at least once a week. As it is a class that does classical mat and don’t go in thinking that it is about flexibility and not excercise. Pilates is more focuses on core strength and to do that you have to load the core.

Yoga on the other hand Yoga is more based around the flexibility, but does engage the core just as much with some of the poses. I find some of the guff that. Goes with it to be twaddle, but that depends on Who is taking the class.

Your best bet is to try the class first and see if you get on with it.

I don’t care what anybody else thinks I really liked it. I was actually going to sleep if they do a joint sub.

Does that make me a bad person?

How big is the hole? If it is not too big (poss 3mm and above) then you should use the plug. This is is a proper repair that will last. The patch method is also ok, but not one that works well out on the road as you will probably have a load of gunk on the inside of the tyre and if they are as tight as mine they are a sod to get on and off again. The sealant with rag in rather than the small granular material may also be of use, but I don’t have much experience of that.

As for the “Why tubeless on road?” all I can say is that the small flint and thorn punctures that I used to get have pretty much stopped. That is enough reason for me, but the price of the tyres is pretty steep, so it is not all good 🙂

Newtonian physics……

I have an E-120 from 2008 and it is still my main bike. The only thing left that is original is the main triangle and the stem, but obviously it is the same bike. I don’t want a new bike as this one is amazing and it does everything I want it to. I also have an original Turner Burner that I built up and took to the Alps last year, that absolutely eat up the trails I was on. That bike must be 14/15 years old and with. New set of 100mm forks it was great. I doubt that it would cost more than £500 now, but that would be more than enough for most people need.

Lots of roads and gravel tracks. Flat as a pancake and the traffic can get a bit sticky in some of the junctions. I went early in the morning an it was great. There are also a lot of segregated cycle paths, but hey are a lot slower with people pottering around on them. Hope that helps.

Suits are impractical for doing practical things. If you work in an office and sit down most of the time I think you find that you take your jacket off, so you are really talking about looking good when you move around and people see you.

If you work in an office and go out on site to do something (not just to look at stuff) then you will need to change your shoes (generally sites need toe and mid sole protection) some form of high vis or weatherproof garment.

I own a collection of made to measure suits (mate is a tailor), but I have gone past the point of trying to impress by what I wear to the impressing by what I do. If I wear a suit now it does look good, but I do not earn enough to have them dry cleaned a couple of times a week when they get as dirty as my normal clothing.

As for ties they are actually banned when you are near any machinery or tools and I associate them with a garotte. Not really a fan.

If it is ceramic cartridge you only need to strip it, grease it and refit it. I have had several if these ceramic taps go this way and that was all it took to fix.

Worth a try.

steephill.tv for me as I don’t have any other way of seeing it. Well that was until I get volunteered to go to the MiL’s to get my son’s homework and a desk that needs fetching. Hopefully I won’t miss much.